Healing by Heart is a book of stories--stories of people's search for culturally responsive health care from U.S. providers. It offers resources to providers and institutions committed to delivering culturally responsive health care, paying special attention to building successful relationships with traditional Hmong patients and families. It makes available extensive information about the health-related beliefs, practices, and values of the Hmong people, including photographs of traditional healing methods.
This book takes up the task of examining Hmong American concepts of health, illness and healing, and looks at the Hmong American experience with conventional medicine.
Although this report from the Center for Disease Control focuses primarily on preventing and treating tuberculosis among Vietnamese Americans, there is a lot of good information about Vietnamese American cultural practices
General Southeast Asian American Health Information
Although this report from the Center for Disease Control focuses primarily on preventing and treating tuberculosis among Burmese Americans, there is a lot of good information about Burmese American cultural practices